Vaders Suggestion

not sure... if he didn't came up with that rule, why would they still be with two at that time?

That was just the way the story had turned out at the time ... Darth Vader was the Lord of the Sith and the Emperor was his master. I doubt it was because he had specifically thought of the rule of only two sith lords at that time 20 years back.

I think he had a lot of things clear even during ep V, but I see what you are saying Harmax and I think in the same way too. But for the sake of the arguement we say GL knew then his sith plot

I agree, Harmax, but GL keeps talking as if there is no discrepency there. And there is!

This is why:

Originally posted by Ushgarak
All EU is non-canon but not all non-canon is EU.

This isn't correct. Steve [McQuarrie?] (the director of Star Wars distribution, merchandising, and head honcho of literature and the EU) from www.starwars.com has confirmed numerous books as being canon with the motion pictures.

On the website they never gave a specific list nor have I gotten ahold of any sources that list the canon novels but from what I've heard, there are quite a few.

Well SW is originally movies, what we learn there is for me cannon.
People who watch SW should get the thread of the story through the films, not books that came out as an extra

Originally posted by UnknownBountyHunter
This isn't correct. Steve [McQuarrie?] (the director of Star Wars distribution, merchandising, and head honcho of literature and the EU) from www.starwars.com has confirmed numerous books as being canon with the motion pictures.

My idea of why the Emperor agreed with vader is that he foresaw Luke fighting Vader. And Vader had the idea that him and his son could together kill the Emperor.

It;s the way they seemed to agree with each other that it was a good idea that was odd.

This can get really out of hand you know, kinda like the Bible being mis-interpreted and there being Holy Wars start as a consequence of it.

I think we can all just agree that the movies are great, even if there are some contradictions in thier content. 😄

Mech is a heretic! Burn him!

Errrrrrrr look at that kid over there wearing a Jar Jar t-shirt *points*

*Runs away as the mob turns to the much more serious threat*

Is it I love Jar-Jar or I hate Jar-Jar? Either way, half the crowd is off to lynch him.

It was an "I love Jar Jar", which means approx. 99.9% of the crowd should be off to sacrifice him.

Jar Jar got annoying, almost as bad as Jack Lloyd

Indeed, I'd love to give Jack Lloyd a good open handed slap round the face. 😠

why not a fist

Back to the original topic. Darth Vader and Darth Sidious could've turned Luke to the Dark Side and trained him as a Dark Jedi (since the two Sith positions were are occupied). I think Sidious was smart enough to realize that he would be better off keeping both Vader and Luke. He would just have to show them both that he's still Sith master.

hmm and with two darkies under your command a battle for power would be much much bigger, especially with a father and son connection